After Palm Sunday jihad massacres, Pope Francis to Egypt to reach out to Muslims

“A main reason for the trip is to try to strengthen relations with
the 1,000-year-old Azhar center that were cut by the Muslim side in 2011
over what it said were repeated insults of Islam by Francis’s
predecessor, Pope Benedict.”
What did Benedict say? Andrea Gagliarducci of the Catholic News
Agency explains that after a jihad terrorist murdered 23 Christians in a
church in Alexandria 2011, Benedict decried “terrorism” and the
“strategy of violence” against Christians, and called for the Christians
of the Middle East to be protected.

Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam, Ahmed al-Tayeb, whom Pope Francis welcomed to
the Vatican in May, was furious. He railed at Benedict for his
“interference” in Egypt’s affairs and warned of a “negative political
reaction” to the Pope’s remarks. In a statement, Al-Azhar denounced the
Pope’s “repeated negative references to Islam and his claims that
Muslims persecute those living among them in the Middle East.”
Benedict stood his ground, and that was that. But in September 2013,
al-Azhar announced that Pope Francis had sent a personal message to
al-Tayeb. In it, according to al-Azhar, Francis declared his respect for
Islam and his desire to achieve “mutual understanding between the
world’s Christians and Muslims in order to build peace and justice.” At
the same time, Al Tayyeb met with the Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Mgr.
Jean-Paul Gobel, and told him in no uncertain terms that speaking about
Islam in a negative manner was a “red line” that must not be crossed.
So Pope Benedict condemned a jihad attack, one that al-Azhar also
condemned, and yet al-Azhar suspended dialogue because of the Pope’s
condemnation. Then Pope Francis wrote to the Grand Imam of al-Azhar
affirming his respect for Islam, and the Grand Imam warned him that
criticizing Islam was a “red line” that he must not cross. And he
hasn’t, and won’t. But all those who think that it’s marvelous that the
Pope is “respectful” and refuses to “poke them in the eye” should
remember: Benedict’s supposed insults to Islam were denunciations of
jihad attacks on Christians. Pope Francis won’t be so indelicate.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)

“Pope to Egypt to Mend Ties With Islam but Conservatives Wary,” by Philip Pullella, Reuters, April 25, 2017:
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis hopes to mend ties with Muslims
on his trip to Egypt on Friday but faces criticism from church
conservatives for meeting Islamic religious leaders after a spate of
deadly attacks against Christians.
In a video message to the people of Egypt on Tuesday, Francis said
the world had been “torn by blind violence, which has also afflicted the
heart of the your dear land” and said he hoped his trip could help
peace and inter-religious dialogue.
Security is a primary concern less than three weeks after 45 people
were killed in attacks on Coptic Christian churches in Alexandria and
Tanta, claimed by Islamic State, on Palm Sunday.
But Francis has insisted on using an ordinary car during his 27 hours
in Cairo, continuing his practice of shunning armored limousines in
order to be closer to people.
Francis will meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi; Sheikh Ahmed
al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, the world’s most influential
center of Sunni Islamic theology and learning; and Pope Tawadros II,
head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, who barely escaped the Alexandria
bombing….
A main reason for the trip is to try to strengthen relations with the
1,000-year-old Azhar center that were cut by the Muslim side in 2011
over what it said were repeated insults of Islam by Francis’s
predecessor, Pope Benedict.
Ties with the center were restored last year after Tayeb visited the
Vatican. Tayeb, widely seen as one of the most moderate senior clerics
in Egypt, has repeatedly condemned Islamic State and its practice of
declaring others as apostates and infidels as a pretext for waging
violent jihad.
The Vatican says that Francis, who denounces the idea of violence in
God’s name, is convinced that Christian-Muslim dialogue is more
important now than ever. Papal aides say a moderate like Tayeb would be
an important ally in condemning radical Islam.
In Tuesday’s message, Francis said he hoped the trip could bring
“fraternity and reconciliation to all children of Abraham, particularly
in the Islamic world, in which Egypt occupies a primary position” and
“offer a valid contribution to inter-religious dialogue with the Islamic
world”.
WAR OF RELIGION?
The pope’s views are not shared by all Catholics, however. Some
conservatives say there should be no dialogue with Islam and that a “war
of religion” is in progress.
Italian historian Roberto de Mattei said the Palm Sunday attacks should be “a brusque reality check for Pope Francis”.
The perpetrators were “not unbalanced or crazy but bearers of a
religious vision that has been combating Christianity since the seventh
century,” De Mattei, editor of the conservative monthly magazine
Christian Roots, wrote in an editorial….
A leading Catholic scholar of Islam, Egyptian-born Father Samir Khalil Samir, said that Francis meant well but was naive.
“I think his ignorance of Islam does not help dialogue. He has said
often that we know that Islam is a religion of peace but this is simply a
mistake,” Samir, who is based in Beirut, told reporters in Rome.
“We know there are certainly times of peace and a willingness for
peace on the part of many Muslims but I can’t read the Koran and pretend
that it is a book that is oriented towards peace,” he said.
The region has witnessed a massive exodus of Christians fleeing war
and persecution in the past few decades, accelerated recently by the
rise of Islamic State. Francis said in his message he hoped his visit
could be a “consolation and … encouragement to all Christians in the
Middle East”.
He will visit Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral to pray for the 28
people killed in a Christmas season blast last year and lay flowers in
their memory….

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."